EWTN News Staff, reporting for the National Catholic Register, presents a photo gallery documenting the departure of the usurper Robert Prevost — who illegitimately occupies the Chair of Peter under the name “Leo XIV” — from Cameroon to Angola on April 18, 2026. The article, sourced from Vatican Media, chronicles the various ceremonial moments of this apostolic journey: the celebration of a “Holy Mass” at Yaoundé-Ville Airport, farewell ceremonies, meetings with Angolan President João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço, and encounters with government officials and civil leaders. The piece is entirely devoid of any substantive Catholic content, functioning instead as a visual press release for the activities of a man who, by the very fact of his manifest heresy and public defection from the Catholic faith, has ipso facto lost all jurisdiction and authority over the Church. The article’s silence on the theological illegitimacy of this entire spectacle is itself the most damning indictment of its modernist character.
The Empty Theater of a Vacant See
The article presents, with breathless journalistic enthusiasm, a series of photographs depicting the usurper Leo XIV performing the external trappings of papal authority: waving to crowds, holding babies, greeting “bishops,” meeting with heads of state, and celebrating what is described as “Holy Mass.” Every single one of these acts is, from the perspective of integral Catholic faith, a hollow simulation — a theatrical performance staged by a man who possesses no valid claim to the Petrine office.
As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches in De Romano Pontifice (Book II, Chapter 30): “A Pope who is a manifest heretic, by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head, just as he ceases to be a Christian and member of the body of the Church.” This is not a disciplinary opinion but the unanimous teaching of the Fathers and Doctors. Wernz and Vidal confirm in Ius Canonicum that a manifest heretic is deprived ipso facto of his personal jurisdiction even before any declaratory sentence by the Church. The usurper Prevost, elevated through a process governed by the apostate structures of the conciliar sect, has publicly embraced and propagated the errors condemned by the Syllabus of Errors of Pius IX, the Lamentabili sane exitu of St. Pius X, and every pre-conciliar magisterial document. He is, by his own public record, a manifest heretic. Therefore, he is not Pope. He is not the Holy Father. He is not the Vicar of Christ. He is a private person — and a heretical one at that — performing ceremonies that have no more spiritual validity than if any layman were to don vestments and mimic the sacred rites.
The “Holy Mass” at Yaoundé-Ville Airport: Sacrilege Elevated to Spectacle
The article’s centerpiece is the celebration of what it calls “Holy Mass” at Yaoundé-Ville Airport. The very location — an airport — is emblematic of the conciliar sect’s reduction of the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass to a traveling road show, a piece of religious entertainment staged for media consumption. The true Mass, the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary, is the re-presentation of the one propitiatory sacrifice of Our Lord Jesus Christ on Calvary, offered to God the Father for the remission of sins. It is not a “celebration” in the modernist sense, not a communal meal, not a spectacle for cameras.
The Novus Ordo Missae, promulgated by the apostate Paul VI in 1969, is a Protestantized rite that obscures the sacrificial nature of the Mass, reduces the priest to a “presider,” and transforms the liturgy into a horizontal, man-centered assembly. As the Syllabus of Errors (Proposition 64) condemns: “The violation of any solemn oath, as well as any wicked and flagitious action repugnant to the eternal law, is not only not blamable but is altogether lawful and worthy of the highest praise” — and what greater violation of the sacred can be imagined than the destruction of the Roman Rite, the immemorial liturgy of the Church, and its replacement with a modernist fabrication?
When the usurper Leo XIV stands at an airport altar, surrounded by cameras and smiling crowds, he is not offering the Holy Sacrifice. He is presiding over a counterfeit rite that the Church has never recognized as valid in the proper sense, performed by a man who has no authority to consecrate, absolve, or bless. The faithful who attend such ceremonies, unaware of the theological reality, are participating in a simulation of worship that leads them further from the true faith, not closer to it.
Meetings with Civil Authorities: The Reign of Christ the King Denied
The article dutifully reports the usurper’s meeting with Angolan President João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço, describing it as a meeting with “government officials and civil leaders.” There is no mention — naturally, because the conciliar sect has abandoned this teaching entirely — of the duty of all civil rulers to publicly recognize and submit to the reign of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
Pius XI, in the encyclical Quas Primas (1925), established the Feast of Christ the King precisely to combat the secularism and laicism that had infected human society. He wrote: “The State is happy not by one means, and man by another; for the state is nothing else than a harmonious association of men.” And further: “Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ, but let them fulfill this duty themselves and with their people, if they wish to maintain their authority inviolate and contribute to the increase of their homeland’s happiness.”
The usurper Leo XIV, in meeting with the President of Angola, makes no demand for the public recognition of Christ the King. He makes no call for the submission of the Angolan state to the laws of the Gospel. He engages in the conciliar sect’s characteristic diplomacy of “dialogue” — a dialogue that, as the Syllabus of Errors (Proposition 80) condemns, seeks to “reconcile” the Church with “progress, liberalism and modern civilization.” This is not the diplomacy of the Church; it is the diplomacy of surrender. The true Church has always demanded that states recognize the social reign of Christ, that laws conform to divine law, and that the Catholic religion be recognized as the only true religion of the state. The usurper’s silence on these matters is not an oversight; it is a deliberate repudiation of Catholic doctrine.
The Linguistic Apostasy: “Holy Father,” “Holy Mass,” “Catholics”
The article’s language itself is a symptom of the theological decay it documents. The repeated use of the title “Holy Father” for the usurper Prevost is a blasphemous misapplication of a title that belongs only to the true successor of St. Peter. The term “Holy Mass” applied to the Novus Ordo rite is a sacrilegious appropriation of a sacred designation for a counterfeit ceremony. The word “Catholics” applied to those who follow the conciliar sect is a theft of identity — these are not Catholics in the true sense but members of a neo-church that has abandoned the faith of their ancestors.
The article refers to “Archbishop of Yaoundé Monsignor Jean Mbarga” — a member of the conciliar hierarchy that has no legitimate authority in the Church. These “bishops” are appointed by the usurpers in Rome, consecrated according to the new rite of episcopal consecration (introduced in 1968 by the apostate Paul VI), and their orders are at best doubtful, at worst null and void. They are not successors of the Apostles; they are functionaries of a paramasonic structure that has occupied the physical buildings of the Vatican while emptying them of all Catholic content.
The Silence That Condemns: What the Article Omits
The most damning aspect of this article is not what it says but what it omits. There is no mention of the true state of the Catholic Church — that the See of Peter is vacant, that the conciliar usurpers are manifest heretics, that the Novus Ordo Missae is a sacrilegious rite, that the faithful must seek out true priests who offer the Traditional Latin Mass according to the immemorial Roman Rite.
There is no mention of the spiritual crisis that has engulfed the world since the conciliar revolution: the collapse of faith, the destruction of the priesthood, the closing of seminaries, the emptying of churches, the loss of the sense of sin, the proliferation of heresy and sacrilege. There is no mention of the duty of the faithful to resist the conciliar apostasy, to reject the authority of the usurpers, and to cling to the unchanging deposit of faith.
There is no mention of the social reign of Christ the King, of the necessity of Catholic states, of the obligation of civil rulers to submit to the Church’s authority. There is no mention of the errors condemned by the Syllabus of Errors, by Lamentabili sane exitu, by Pascendi Dominici gregis. There is no mention of the true nature of the Church as a perfect society, endowed with all the means necessary for the salvation of souls, independent of all civil authority.
The article is, in its totality, a document of apostasy — a record of the activities of a false pope, performed in a false church, for an audience that has been deceived into believing that the conciliar sect is the Catholic Church. It is a testament to the success of the modernist revolution in emptying the faith of all substance and replacing it with a humanitarian, naturalistic, man-centered counterfeit.
The Duty of the Faithful: Rejection and Resistance
The faithful who read this article must understand that what is depicted here is not the Catholic Church. It is the abomination of desolation sitting in the holy place (Matt. 24:15). The usurper Leo XIV is not the Pope. He is a heretic and an apostate who has no authority to teach, govern, or sanctify. His “Masses” are not the Holy Sacrifice. His “bishops” are not true bishops. His “Church” is not the Catholic Church.
The duty of every Catholic is clear: to reject the authority of the conciliar usurpers, to seek out true priests who offer the Traditional Latin Mass, to profess the integral Catholic faith as taught by the Fathers, the Councils, and the pre-conciliar Magisterium, and to resist the modernist apostasy with every means at their disposal.
As Pius XI declared in Quas Primas: “His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” No usurper, no conciliar sect, no modernist revolution can change this truth. Christ is King. His Church endures. And the faithful who remain loyal to Him will triumph in the end — not through the false “dialogue” and “encounters” of the conciliars, but through the grace of God, the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the unchanging faith of the saints.
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PHOTOS: Pope Leo XIV Departs Cameroon, Journeys to Angola (ncregister.com)
Date: 18.04.2026